PETALING JAYA: Doris Tan had been bracing for a wet Christmas as rain had been forecast, with the possibility of floods, but she was totally unprepared for ...
“I didn’t manage to store any water, but I could buy drinking water from the store. “We will go to my parents’ house in Ampang for Christmas Eve dinner - and stay there. “I have sent my children out to buy drinking water from supermarkets so we can finish cooking and celebrate Christmas,” she said. “My friends will also bring bottles of water, just to be on the safe side. She has already prepared the roast turkey and root vegetables to go with the Christmas feast but has yet to prepare the appetisers and desserts. PETALING JAYA: Doris Tan had been bracing for a wet Christmas as rain had been forecast, with the possibility of floods, but she was totally unprepared for a dry Yuletide, with no water from the tap.
Hotel manager Alex Lee recounts all the times he celebrated Christmas at The Smokehouse Hotel in the 1980's.
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KOTA KINABALU: Fire and Rescue Department officer Clarice Jimoh had her Christmas plans put on hold as she kept her uniform on to oversee disaster relief ...
"But if the situation warrants it, I will help," she asserted. "We normally celebrate Christmas with prayers in church and a gathering with my husband's family," she said, adding that if all was well with the weather, they would travel to Ranau today. "Duty calls," she said, referring to the disaster relief operations activated on Wednesday.
Wilhelmina Rani has been playing Santa Claus every year since 2008 so she can spread cheer and love to children at Christmas.
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Indira and Balwant Mistry say traditions like roast turkey and mince pies were "confusing" for them.
"We had very little so we could not do much and we were not aware of what people do for Christmas so it was just a bank holiday for us." "So when she brought the turkey home, we just started cooking but there was no internet to go and check how to cook it and what the trimmings were. "When we came to this country the Christmas holidays were there, Christmas snow was there, all the decorations were there in the shops," he said. "Then we all understood what Christmas was all about," she added. "We never had Diwali holidays there but we had a full Christmas holiday here," she said. Mrs Mistry said: "We didn't know what Christmas was all about.